54 h. ago I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter | Stewart Lee

Is it worth me writing jokes about Trump’s US? It looks like they are targeting even their mildest visa-carrying criticsDuring the Brexit era, it became obvious many comments under these columns were being placed by Russian trolls, with slightly strange grasps of idiomatic English, cut-and-pasting blocks of approved pro-Putin and anti-EU texts to change the direction of the discourse. Their posts read like the computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but trained on 90s MTV Europe presenters’ accents and Russia Today op-eds.I began to bait the bots by inserting deliberately incomprehensible, but also somehow provocative, sentences into my pieces, culminating in the following paragraph, from the summer of 2016, after which point the Russian provocateurs left me alone: Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Donald Trump moves to end union rights for many government agency employees – US politics live

White House signs executive order limiting numerous federal workers from unionisingTrump news at a glance: judge orders now-infamous Signal chat be retainedFor beleaguered and divided congressional Democrats desperate to find an effective line of attack against Donald Trump, news that the US president’s national security team discussed plans to bomb Yemen on a widely available messaging app in the presence of a journalist came at just the right time.The leak has put the White House and the Republicans on the defensive, generated multiple days of aggressive media coverage and forced top officials to publicly twist themselves in knots as they seek to explain – or downplay – the blunder. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The Signal fiasco is a political gift to Democrats but their power is limited

The ball now appears to be in the Republicans’ court, where there have been some signs of diverging from TrumpFor beleaguered and divided congressional Democrats desperate to find an effective line of attack against Donald Trump, news that the US president’s national security team discussed plans to bomb Yemen on a widely available messaging app in the presence of a journalist came at just the right time.The leak has put the White House and the Republicans on the defensive, generated multiple days of aggressive media coverage and forced top officials to publicly twist themselves in knots as they seek to explain – or downplay – the blunder. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Judge says he will order government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike

A federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen’s Houthis

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5 d. ago Trump breaks silence after Yemen war plan texts revealed and hints at who is responsible for shock leak

Donald Trump dismissed the contents of the messages contained in a Signal chat where his top intelligence, national security and defense officials were discussing attack plans on Yemen.

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6 d. ago US spies issued warning WEEKS AGO about Signal messaging app security fears and potential leaks

America's National Security Agency warned against mis-use of the Signal app last month - weeks before US President Donald Trump's top people sparked the notorious 'chatgate' attack plans scandal

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6 d. ago US security breach: Mike Waltz admits 'full responsibility' for leaked war texts saga

The US security breach raised concern and questions on Tuesday as messages were leaked off app Signal after Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief, was added to a group chat

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7 d. ago Trump cabinet members tear into ‘pathetic’ European allies for ‘free

The messages have come to light in an extraordinary security breach after a journalist was added to a high-level messaging group by mistake

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7 d. ago Staggering security breach after journalist included in Trump admin chat outlining plans to bomb Houthis in Yemen

President’s national security team used an encrypted messaging app to talk about a planned strike on Houthi militants — and accidentally included a prominent journalist in their group chat

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7 d. ago Staggering security breach after journalist is included in Trump admin group chat outlining plans to bomb Houthis in Yemen

President’s national security team used an encrypted messaging app to talk about a planned strike on Houthi militants — and accidentally included a prominent journalist in their group chat

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2 w. ago Russian propagandist warns Brit and French troops 'we will kill you all' and threatens to sink London under a nuclear tidal wave in TV rant

His message echoes senior Russian security council official Dmitry Medvedev who predicted World War Three if Starmer and Macron deploy troops in Ukraine

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